john serrato, less reports from athens. the supreme court traditionally rules on parties eligibility to take part in elections. this year, there's intense interest in that ruling. that's because greeks national party is the vehicle of this man. las cassey theories, former spokesman for golden dawn, greece's neo fascist party, condemned as a criminal organization in 2020 it's leading figures sentenced to 14 years in jail . custody of his lawyer says he can't constitutionally be prevented from running yet. is that medical to thank you? degree constitution requires an irrevocable criminal conviction to buy any citizen from elected office. so person has to be found guilty on appeal to the supreme court. here we have the unique situation of a person with a 1st conviction being stripped of the right to office. but he still enjoys the presumption of innocence about the fallacy. will not grace's constitution is very liberal, it makes it essentially impossible to disqualify parties. that's why the ruling new democracy. conservatives

we have john serrato as joining us live from a polling station in athens. so john, what are you seeing and what's at stake for the political parties? hello, the reason i would say this is rather enhanced and claim actor election because it's more or less a full going conclusion that greece won't be forming a government next week. the leading policy and the polls, the ruling conservatives from new democracy have said that they aren't willing to work with any other party to form a coalition government. and they don't have the funds to form a government on that room under the current system of proportional representation. so given that the 2nd largest party, the left wing series, and the 3rd largest policy, the socialist suck, also won't have enough seats in parliament to form a majority government, or even the minority government with parliamentary votes of tolerance. i think it's more or less than a given that greece is going to be having a runoff election on july 2nd. and that's what i think most people here expect spots. we have seen her as a very impressiv